Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

by David Frum

We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.2

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will,” as Frederick Douglass

“Post-truth is pre-fascism,” wrote Yale historian Timothy Snyder

Trump’s incessant lying has indeed warped the minds of his core supporters. As noted earlier, more than half of Republicans have accepted Trump’s false claim to have won the popular vote;8

“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.” So said the great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz

Trump reminded Americans of the old schoolyard lesson: the bully is a coward. Another gift.

A harder, tougher, and less illusioned American Left: a strange gift from Donald Trump, but real.

while constitutional government may sometimes look like an endless and pointless squabble, the promises of superior results from supposed strongmen are always self-serving lies.

the way that liberty must be defended is not with amateur firearms, but with an unwearying insistence on the honesty, integrity, and professionalism of American institutions and those who lead them.